Alexander Wassiljewitsch Mossolow: Konzert

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Konzert

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Work introduction

There are traces of American
jazz in the slow sections of the concerto’s first movement, whereas the con moto parts are evocative of the
world of machinery – a favourite subject of cultural interest in the 1920s. The
second movement is wonderfully original – swinging theatre music, now abstract,
now richly suggestive, in a way Mossolov’s teacher Prokofiev would have liked. The
third movement is excited and exciting, its rhythms hugely compelling, rousing
and virtuosic.